Tune in to the next Sydney ALT.NET meetup on Tuesday (30 Dec)! I’ll be giving a talk from around 6pm.
Accept credit cards: Gateways, architectures, code, and… money!
Have you been thinking to accept credit card payments for your new clever MVP, startup, or maybe even in your day job? Well, you’re in luck! James will give you a primer on how to do it simply and securely, based on his recent journey to the Gateway jungle.
Please RSVP on meetup and join the Twitch stream for some fun!
At next Sydney ALT.NET meetup (30 June), I’ll be giving a couple of short talks from around 7pm:
Building a Rust microservice, dockerising and deploying on Google Kubernetes Engine
Walk through of a little side project, showing you how this tech works and fits together.
Terminal COVID-19 tracker in your postcode
Brought to you in one line, with a little investigation in the Chrome inspector, and some simple terminal commands piped together.
Feel free to tune in on the Twitch stream for some fun!
Now available to watch on YouTube.
You can check out the repo for Rust & k8 on Github.
And the one liner for COVID-19 tracking is:
curl https://nswdac-covid-19-postcode-heatmap.azurewebsites.net/datafiles/data_Cases2.json |ruby -e 'puts STDIN.gets.gsub("},", "},\n")' | grep <your postcode>
I’ll be speaking at the Sydney ALT.NET user group next Tues (27 Feb).
Yet another language!?? But wait, Elixir is way cool! Imagine the speed and concurrency of Erlang (it’s build on the Erlang VM), the neatness of functional programming (but only when you want it) and the sexy expressive style of Ruby, all rolled into one attractive language. And, yeah, it has a good web framework too.
Tues 27 Feb from 6pm at ThoughtWorks Sydney office
NOTE NEW LOCATION: 50 Carrington Street, Level 10
RSVP on Meetup (for pizza and beer!)
Check out talk material on Github (slides in VIM 🙂 )
And a you can watch a recording of the talk.
For the first time in a little while, I’ll be giving a talk at the Sydney ALT.NET user group:
HTTPS is ever more pervasive, with few sites still using plain HTTP. Want to be the guy or girl on the team who actually understands HTTPS, can set up certificates and fix issues that come up? Sometimes this is left to an ops team, but there are benefits and impacts that cannot be ignored in development.
James has migrated several sites from HTTP to HTTPS and has tips and tricks to share.
Tues 25 October from 6pm at ThoughtWorks Sydney office, Lvl8 51 Pitt St, Sydney.
RSVP on Meetup (for pizza and beer!)
You can find the slides from the night here.
Come along to Sydney ALT.NET for a BIG data night.
I’ll be giving a talk on Redshift:
Started to hit the point where your transactional database is not the right place for running reporting queries and experimental data science? Keen to chuck in more data from web logs, CRMs, facebook, etc so you can start learning more about your users? Come along to Sydney ALT.NET on June 24th to see an easy way to do it with AWS Redshift, mapping SQL and some simple scripting duct tape.
We also have a co-presented talk on Azure’s Hadoop implementation, HD Insights and Power BI: The Power of the Elephant in the Microsoft Cloud given by Jibin Johnson and Simon Waight from the Azure User Group.
From 6pm at ThoughtWorks Sydney office Lvl8 51 Pitt St, 24 June 14.
Remember to get your free ticket. See you there!
I’ll be giving a talk at Sydney ALT.NET on Tues:
After recently moving the Getup site fully to HTTPS, James will share with you security pitfalls, the justification for the move from mixed HTTP/HTTPS, lessons learnt, and performance tips. A romp through the protocols of the web with riffs on status codes, HSTS, domain verification, and interesting headers. This talk could save your bacon.
From 6pm at ThoughtWorks Sydney office on Pitt St. Remember to RSVP on the Sydney ALT.NET site to help with catering. See you there!
I’ll be giving a talk at Sydney ALT.NET tonight:
Want to build a web application which dynamically changes layout to best suit the client, be it mobile, tablet or desktop with the same HTML? Fun times with HTML5, Bootstrap, HAML and Sass. You’ll get to see it in action, and the code behind the magic.
From 6pm at ThoughtWorks Sydney office on Pitt St. Remember to RSVP on the Sydney ALT.NET site to help with catering. See you there!
Outstanding news! As part of the rails refactor talk at RORO (Sydney Rails Group) tonight (great evening by the way!), I asked for a show of hands on people’s favoured editors. I was amazed to discover the vim has edged out TextMate with just over half of the people at the group using it as their editor of choice! As an aside, Netbeans had one supporter, RubyMine and Emacs had zero. The groundswell of support for vim (and the cheering) was impressive!
PS – this is a very nerdy post, but as a long time vim fan, I had to report on it 🙂
I’ll be giving a short talk with Ryan Bigg on Rails Refactor at the next Sydney Rails Group (RORO) meet (Tuesday, Feb 8 from 7pm) . We’ll be talking about Rails Refactor’s birth at a hack night last year, what it can do for you right now, and its bright future as your refactoring tool of choice. Hope to see you there.
I’ll be giving a short talk on Starting Android Development on Tuesday at the Sydney ALT.NET group.
We’ll be covering:
Richard Banks (@rbanks54) will also be giving a talk on .NET bdd tools.
More info and RSVP on the ALT.NET blog.
See you there!
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